Representative Experience
Provides advice on employee retirement plans, plan qualification and plan fiduciary duties

Represents group health plans and their plan sponsors with respect to COBRA and HIPAA compliance, including the privacy and security regulations, and other federal and state laws regulations group health plans

Represents employee plans and plan sponsors with the Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service

Provides advice on equity-based compensation, including establishing stock option plans, employee stock purchase plans and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)

Prior Experience
Associate, LeSourd & Patten, Seattle, practice emphasized ERISA litigation and tax, including the taxation of employee plans and tax controversies

Publications and Presentations
Author "Taxation of IRAs and Qualified Plan Distributions" Chapter of the Washington Lawyers Practice Manual

Frequent speaker on employee benefits compliance issues, including speaking at the Washington Pension & Benefits Conference Seminar on COBRA and HIPAA compliance

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Federal District Court of the Western District of Washington

United States Tax Court

Selected to "Rising Stars," Washington Law and Politics, 2005-2006 edition

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Employee Benefits Law by Woodward/White, 2008

Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1995

B.A. in Anthropology, with honors, University of Washington, 1992